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    Hot tempers? Rookie stars? 5 things to know ahead of NASCAR's Clash at the Coliseum.

    by Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times Feb 03, 2023 5 minutes
    With a view of downtown Los Angeles and snow-capped mountains in the background, NASCAR fans watch and cheer as racers circle the quarter-mile track during the Busch Light Clash At The Coliseum, a NASCAR exhibition race at the historic LA Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles Sunday, Feb. 6, 2022.

    LOS ANGELES — The USC students tailgated and partied. They burst into the Coliseum and watched the action from their section. They were blown away by the power, speed, aggression and competitiveness of the combatants.

    Nary a football was in sight.

    They were drawn a year ago to the initial Clash at the Coliseum, a NASCAR brainstorm that proved immensely popular. The football field somehow was transformed into a quarter-mile racetrack. Behind the wheels of revolutionary New Gen race cars making their debut, the nation's best drivers put on a daylong spectacle of bumping, crashing and speeding through four qualifying races and the finale.

    Excitement was palpable. The USC students had never seen anything like it.

    "I've got friends that go to USC and they were texting me all day," said Noah Gragson, a 22-year-old NASCAR wunderkind who won eight Xfinity Series races in 2022 and will begin his rookie year

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